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Re: Re: Understanding forkby neilwatson (Priest) |
| on Nov 08, 2002 at 17:38 UTC ( [id://211484]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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In the parent process, fork() returns the process ID of the new child. So in that process, you redirect the user, and exit. (At least, I THINK you should exit, but you're falling out of that else clause in your sample, and doing the while twice...).
How do you prevent that?
Neil Watson
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Seekers of Perl Wisdom
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